UN General Assembly draft Resolution on the Rights of the Child 2006

Draft Resolution A/C.3/61/L.16 on the Rights of the Child, submitted to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly under Agenda item 63 (a): Promotion and protection of the rights of children, on 23 October 2006, by:

Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Negotiations on the draft are ongoing.
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Other draft Resolutions on children's rights:

• The situation of the Lebanese children [A/C.3/61/L.12]
• Trafficking in women and girls [A/C.3/61/L.11]
• United Nations Literacy Decade: Education for all [A/C.3/61/L.4]